Union for a Popular Movement

The Union for a Popular Movement was a conservative and Gaullist party in France, founded on 17 November 2002 and dissolved on 30 May 2015. The UMP merged several center-right parties, and President of France Jacques Chirac served as its leader at first. Later, Nicolas Sarkozy was also elected as President. The UMP rivaled the French Socialist Party for control of the government, and it lost 2015 elections; it was renamed to "The Republicans" that same year.